Chair: Meeta Co-Chairs: Leela Digumarti, Neelam Agarwal, Nirmala Vaze, Rashmi Shah, Sonia Malik. Advisory Board: Asha Kapadia, Atul Munshi, Duru Shah, Rama Vaidya, Saroj Srivastava, Sonia Malik, Sunila Khandelwal, Urvashi Prasad Jha. External Review Board: Anita Gadgil, Dayasagar, G R Sridhar, Hema Divakar, P K Shah, Rakesh Sahay, Sanjay Kalra. Resource Faculty: Alka Kumar, Anil Mahajan, Ani...

Irrigated agriculture can modify the cycling and transport of nitrogen (N), due to associated water diversions, water losses, and changes in transport flow-paths. We investigate dominant processes behind observed long-term changes in dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) concentrations and loads of the extensive (465,000 km2) semi-arid Amu Darya River basin (ADRB) in Central Asia. We specifically ...

Transformatoarele de putere de înaltă tensiune reprezintă unele din cele mai costisitoare echipamente din staţiile electrice din sistemul electroenergetic. Defectele şi opririle accidentale ale acestora nu cauzează numai costuri cu reparaţiile; ele conduc şi la pierderi ecomonice datorate întreruperii alimentării consumatorilor. Testele preventive şi monitorizarea on-line sunt benefice pentru p...

Just like members of any other profession, not all translators are the same in terms of their ideas, ideals, and code of conduct. Among the modern Iranian translators, a limited, yet influential and professionally well-known, group of them who were among the political activists during Reza Shah Pahlavi (1926-1941) and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1941-1979) reigns had to spend so many years in p...

The pronounced increase in the cycling and deposition of biologically reactive dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) over large areas globally not only cause increased concentrations of DIN in surface waters, but it will also affect nutrient ratios in rivers, lakes and coastal areas. This review addresses the flux and fate of DIN, focusing NO3 in lakes of boreal and alpine catchments. Not only DIN...

Abstract This article introduces Julius Heise’s Marche Triomphale which reveals a history that was eliminated during the nineteenth century race theory publications. Beginning with an account of Iranians’ encounters European military music, this provides brief Iranian bands in style, or muzikānchiān . It then addresses racial motivations behind short on music 1885 by Victor Advielle, French adm...

While process technologists are obsessed to follow Moore’s curve down to nanoscale dimensions, design technologists are confronted with gigascale complexity. On the other hand, post-PC and post dotcom products require zero cost, zero energy yet software programmable novel system architectures to be sold in huge volumes and to be designed in exponentially decreasing time. How do we cope with the...

Receiving coastal waters and estuaries are among the most nutrient-enriched environments on earth, and one of the symptoms of the resulting eutrophication is the proliferation of opportunistic, fast-growing marine seaweeds. Here, we used a widespread macroalga often involved in blooms, Ulva spp., to investigate how supply of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), the two main potential growth-limitin...

Given H a real Hilbert space and Φ : H → R a smooth C function, we study the dynamical system (DIN) ẍ(t) + αẋ(t) + β∇Φ(x(t))ẋ(t) +∇Φ(x(t)) = 0 where α and β are positive parameters. The inertial term ẍ(t) acts as a singular perturbation and, in fact, regularization of the possibly degenerate classical Newton continuous dynamical system ∇Φ(x(t))ẋ(t)+∇Φ(x(t)) = 0. We show that (DIN) is a well-pos...